The medical thriller is an incredibly specific sub-genre, defined by surgical masks, drugs, and paranoia. It’s not usually about magic, but that’s the beauty of book genres: they can be whatever the writer wants them to be. Ferrett Steinmetz’s novel Flex is out from Angry Robot this month, and it got me thinking about what a fan of medical […]
Linda Nagata is best known for her loosely interwoven series The Nanotech Succession, considered by those in the know to be one of the defining works of the nanopunk sub-genre. In 2013, she shifted her gears of war, self-publishing the military future-tech thriller The Red: First Light, which went on to become the first self-published novel ever nominated for […]
Welcome to our monthly roundup chronicling the best books the B&N SFF stable of bloggers has read over the previous month. Old or new, it doesn’t matter—these are the ones that will stick with us.